Post-production

Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 proved the most useful tool during the video production task. This was due to the ease in which we could manipulate the video and sound in order to successfully synchronise the video. It also allowed us to edit clips, we could shorten the length of a clip, make it slow motion, rotate the clip, as well as many other effects. The software also allowed us to brighten the clips, which we needed because the lighting where we filmed was often limited.

Final Video

Research and Planning

We did a couple of tasks firstly to improve our skills, one of these tasks was a lip syncing excersize in which we filmed a video miming to a track and then using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 we matched the track to the video. In this excersize I learnt how to import a video from a digital video camera and then how to believably sync the singers lips to the soundtrack. These editing skills learnt in the research and planning were extremely useful for my video production task later on.

Lip syncing video:



During the production of the video, storyboarding proved useful as it enabled us to know what shots we needed and how long the shot needed to be exactly. The more accurately we did this the easier it was for us in the editing process.

In A2 research and planning I intend to:

• Do more research into shot types commonly used in other music videos, particularly in the genre I will have chosen.
• Storyboard in as much depth as possible.
• Research into appropriate soundtracks for my chosen genre.
• Carefully plan the mise-en-scene of my video.

Digital Technology

During the production tasks, my knowledge of the technology involved in the production greatly improved. Through the use of a digital SLR, I learnt the importance and specifics of camera angles. In the videos we produced we used a range of shots such as close-up, medium close-up, long shot and tracking shot of which we then collaborated the shots together to match the original video we were given to mimic. To do this we used the editing suite "Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0" in which we did our best to match the original video we were given which a lot of the time involved us creating continuity editing. We used the same software to sync the soundtrack to the video, this proved difficult at first, but after a bit of tweeking we managed to make it look believable.

During A2 I would like to develop my camera skills and also to encorporate lighting more as I think it is a key factor to whether a video look proffesional or not. In the short tasks we have recently completed no artificial lighting was used, this is something I hope to change next year.